Moder Modern Jewish Literary Analysis

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A relation to diasporas and exilic experience is also exhibited by them. Some novels draw geographic and territorial borderlines show the movements of immigration, and talk of strangers at home and homelessness as a state of existence.
Some writers showed the attempts and failures to become a national subject and are deeply imprinted with racial, gender and cultural differences and haunted by the Jewish figure of Diaspora. The novels thus become a medium of performance, self-reflection and role experimentation through which the tensions of identity and the paradoxes, hybridizations and dialectics of being an Israeli are explored. Some writers like Ellie Wiesel deconstruct linguistic forms, displacing discourses of fear and anxiety about extermination and contemporary terror with the experience of the Holocaust.
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The Bible, the single greatest legacy of the Jews, has been translated into more than two thousand languages and is the most commonly read and significant body of literature in all of human history. The bible or what we call the Old Testament, which is the earliest and at the same time the most important of Jewish writing is the keystone of Jewish literature. It is written, for the most part, in Hebrew and extends over the period ending with the second century before the Common Era. It is most reliable and the fair reflection of the original characteristics of the Jewish people. “The biblical literature has given the closest attention of all nations and every stage.”

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